Some of the variation formulas of a metric were derived in the literatures by using the local coordinates system, In this paper, We give the first and the second variation formulas of the Riemannian curvature tensor, ...Some of the variation formulas of a metric were derived in the literatures by using the local coordinates system, In this paper, We give the first and the second variation formulas of the Riemannian curvature tensor, Ricci curvature tensor and scalar curvature of a metric by using the moving frame method. We establish a relation between the variation of the volume of a metric and that of a submanifold. We find that the latter is a consequence of the former. Finally we give an application of these formulas to the variations of heat invariants. We prove that a conformally flat metric g is a critical point of the third heat invariant functional for a compact 4-dimensional manifold M, then （M, g） is either scalar flat or a space form.展开更多
In this article, we first study the trace for the heat kernel for the sub-Laplacian operator on the unit sphere in ? n+1. Then we survey some results on the spectral zeta function which is induced by the trace of the ...In this article, we first study the trace for the heat kernel for the sub-Laplacian operator on the unit sphere in ? n+1. Then we survey some results on the spectral zeta function which is induced by the trace of the heat kernel. In the second part of the paper, we discuss an isospectral problem in the CR setting.展开更多
基金Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 10571088)
文摘Some of the variation formulas of a metric were derived in the literatures by using the local coordinates system, In this paper, We give the first and the second variation formulas of the Riemannian curvature tensor, Ricci curvature tensor and scalar curvature of a metric by using the moving frame method. We establish a relation between the variation of the volume of a metric and that of a submanifold. We find that the latter is a consequence of the former. Finally we give an application of these formulas to the variations of heat invariants. We prove that a conformally flat metric g is a critical point of the third heat invariant functional for a compact 4-dimensional manifold M, then （M, g） is either scalar flat or a space form.
基金supported by National Security Agency,United States Army Research Offfice and a Hong Kong RGC Competitive Earmarked Research (Grant No. 600607)
文摘In this article, we first study the trace for the heat kernel for the sub-Laplacian operator on the unit sphere in ? n+1. Then we survey some results on the spectral zeta function which is induced by the trace of the heat kernel. In the second part of the paper, we discuss an isospectral problem in the CR setting.
